Political Quotes

We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

United we stand
Divided we fall.
-Aesop

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-Abraham Lincoln

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
-Nelson Mandela

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-Indira Gandhi

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
-Kofi Annan

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Jesse Jackson

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures.
He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.
-Gene Roddenberry

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
-Norman Douglas

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
-Nelson Mandela

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
-Günter Grass

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes a truth within 24 hours.
-Willie Brown

If you want to know who is going to change this country, go home and look in the mirror.
-Maude Barlow

I politics, madame, you need two things:
Friends, but above all an enemy.
-Brian Mulroney

There is no place for the state
in the bedrooms of the nation.
-Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
-Ronald Reagan

In any moment of decision
The best thing you can do is the right thing,
The next best thing is the wrong thing,
And the worst thing you can do is nothing.
-Theodore Roosevelt

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